Query Design for Digital Methods by Richard Rogers

The question of what constitutes a keyword is the starting point for query design for that is what makes querying and query design practically a part of a research strategy. When formulating a query, one often begins with keywords so as to ascertain who is using them, in which contexts and with which spread or distribution over time. In the following a particular keyword query strategy or design is put forward, whereby one queries competing keywords, asking whether a particular term is winning favour and amongst whom.

3.
• Measure success or 'impact' (buzz of brand or leader's name)
• Measure circulation, resonance or salience of a claim
(climate change is human-induced)
• Measure competition between ‘program’ and ‘anti-
program’ (Akrich/Latour) as well as 'efforts at neutrality' (barrier
between Israel and Palestinian Territories is for 'security' or for
'apartheid')
Rationales for designing queries and 'search as research'
ANALYTICAL STRATEGIES TO
MAKE USE OF QUERY DESIGN

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>II. Actors' stance-taking terminology: Keywords as positioning
efforts.
Program, anti-program as well as efforts at neutrality (cf. Akrich &
Latour, 1992)
When words become keywords and “issue language”
WHAT IS A KEYWORD?
I. Developing meanings of known words (Williams, 1976) e.g., How
'culture' has changed over time from low/high to ethnographic or
subcultural

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Method
Step 1. Query the term "rights" in national terminology per
different Google country (e.g. google.de, google.co.uk)
Step 2. Fetch the top 10 unique rights types.
Step 3. Visualize top 10 issues per country and mark unique
issues.
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
Can the search engine be repurposed to show which rights are specific per country?
SEARCH ENGINE WORK -
QUERY DESIGN -
AMBIGUOUS QUERY
NATIONALITY OF ISSUES: RIGHTS TYPES

19.
Saving results for verification and retrieval
• “Save page as” in the browser, name files and folder
consistently
• Collect rights types in a spreadsheet (incl. translation)
• Merge results and collect saved files in one place
SEARCH AS RESEARCH
Research Practice Protocol

30.
K NAAN
UNHCR
I Am a Star for Somalia
London Somali Youth Forum
Worldwide Somali Students& Professionals
Rageh Omaar
Somali Relief& Development Forum
International Rescue Committee
Barack Obama
Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation
The Community Cup
Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa
Ottawa Police Service - Service de police d Ottawa
Jim Watson
Somali Community Services Coalition
KEXP
Women s Refugee Commission
Non-Proﬁts on Facebook
Human Rights Watch
SOAR
Youth in Focus
United Way of King County
SCHOOL S OUT WASHINGTON
King County Youth Development Network
Woodland Park Zoo
University of Washington
Seattle Children s Theatre
Wing Luke Museum
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Sounders FC
The Seattle FoundationKUOW Public Radio
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
OneAmerica
Somali Family Service of San Diego
Media Arts Center San Diego
United Nations Human Rights
Survivors of Torture International
Somalia
UNICEF
Susan G. Komen
SDCountyHHSA
La Maestra Community Health Centers
Foundation for Change
The San Diego Voice& Viewpoint Newspaper
The San Diego Foundation
Mercy Corps
San Diego Center for Civic Engagement
Voice of San Diego
KPBS
San Diego Business Journal
International Rescue Committee in San Diego
2-1-1 San Diego
Alliance Healthcare Foundation
San Diego Refugee Forum
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
The Ohio State University
World Food Programme
Mayor Mike Coleman
Columbus Metropolitan Library
USAID - US Agency for International Development
North Market
Somalia - The Nation of Poets
Bristol Post
BBC Radio Bristol
Bristol City Council
UNESCO
GAVI Alliance
UN Millennium Development Goals
Volunteers
SayNO - UNiTE to End Violence Against Women
United Nations Global Compact
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
UN Women
The United Nations Girls Education Initiative -(UNGEI)
DFID - UK Department for International Development
International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
UNODC - United Nations Ofﬁce on Drugs and Crime
ReliefWeb
UNFPA
United Nations OCHA
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations News Centre
United Nations
UNAIDS
Save the Children UK
CARE
Save the Children
Somali Diaspora
Facebook page like network
US
Somalia
Transnational
UK
Netherlands
Canada
Norway
Kenya
Sweden
Denmark
in-degree
Source page country

31.
20
12
8
7
Kwibuka 20 Flame is en route to Oxford from London
today, members of the Rwanda Diaspora in London
escorted the flame from Marylebone station to Rwanda
House where they were greeted by the High Commissioner
and thereafter continued the journey to Oxford
The Rwanda High Commis-
sion and The Common-
wealth will be launching the
Commemoration events of
the 20th Anniversary of the
Genocide against the Tutsi
at Marlborough House on
the 7th of January at 3pm.
REMEMBRANCE FLAME
CONTINUES ITS JOURNEY
ACROSS UK -The
Kwibuka20 Flame of Re-
membrance continues it
journey in UK this weekend
when it leaves the city of
Reading for the city of Cov-
entry in West Midlands
where its community is re-
portedly ready to receive it.
[...] The Kwibuka
(Remembrance) Flame rep-
resents the resilience and
courage of Rwandans who
have diligently and bravely
worked hard to rebuild the
country that was torn apart
during the genocide against
the Tutsi, 20 years ago.
20th
Commemoratio
n of the
Genocide
Against the Tutsi
in Rwanda
https://www.fac
ebook.com/even
ts/717197074997
748/
#Kwibuka20 We are currently listening to a
testimony by Eric Murangwa Eugene at the
launch of 20th Commemoration of the
Genocide against the Tutsi at Marlborough
House.
The Yorkshire-Rwanda Community
Association and constituents of Leeds City
came together this Sunday to receive the
Kwibuka 20 flame;
The Kwibuka20 Flame of Remembrance reached the
city of Manchester on Saturday afternoon, as part of its
UK tour and was received by the Rwanda Manchester
Community leader; Mr Noël Ntakirutimana and
community members.
The Kwibuka20 Flame of Remembrance reached the
city of Nottingham this Saturday afternoon, as part of
it tour of UK and was received by the Nottingham
Rwandan Community.
Wishing you all a Happy festive season. Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year 2014.
Diaspora Voting is under
way: Rwandans in
Manchester vote for the
party of their choice at the
Rwanda Parliamentary
Elections.
Rwanda Diaspora - U.K. Most engaging content on Facebook

44.
Lippmannian device.
“Making an Issue cloud”
An organization’s issue agenda
(or commitment)
Public Knowledge, a digital rights NGO,
has issues. Which are they most committed to?

45.
Lippmannian device.
“Issue cloud”
Showing the issue commitments
of the NGO, Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge's issue commitment. Lower six issues on Public Knowledge's issue list, ranked
according to number of mentions of issues on publicknowledge.org, 2 October 2009.

49.
Google Settings
• For the “universal Google” Go to http://google.com/ncr
• Log out of your Gmail account
• Google Preferences:
Set interface and search language
SafeSearch: Off
Google Instant: Off
Nr of Results: 100 per page
USING GOOGLE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
Research protocol for using Google